Release Team Meeting 2026-08-19

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Meeting Type: Foreman Release Team Meeting
Date: Aug 19, 2026
Community: https://community.theforeman.org

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Foreman Nightly

• Foreman 5.1 schedule was posted: Foreman 5.1 Schedule and Planning

• Candlepin 5.0 builds are in progress

  • We discovered a bug in Katello; fix: Fixes #39637 - workaround Candlepin OAuth product content issue by ianballou · Pull Request #11835 · Katello/katello · GitHub
  • Update candlepin version to 5.0.3 by Odilhao · Pull Request #66 · theforeman/candlepin-oci-images · GitHub

Foreman OCI Releases

• stage → prod gating job
  • PR is up: Add konflux-gate-pipeline: stage-test and promote Konflux images by Odilhao · Pull Request #588 · theforeman/jenkins-jobs · GitHub
• Add base Foreman image: Add base container image by Odilhao · Pull Request #89 · theforeman/foreman-oci-images · GitHub
• We have Pulp, foreman, and foreman-proxy images on EL10. For the Candlepin image on EL10, we’re waiting for complete Candlepin 5.0 rpm builds.

Foreman 5.0

Foreman 5.0 was branched on 2026-08-11. RC1 went out yesterday.

RC feedback to be provided in Foreman 5.0 release candidate feedback - #9 by ekohl

Foreman 3.19

• Status Updates
  • 3.19.2 TODO | 3.19.2 DONE
  • CI Overview
• Foreman 3.19.1 is the latest release

Foreman 3.18

• Status Updates
  • 3.18.3 TODO | 3.18.3 DONE
  • CI Overview
• CI is green
• Foreman 3.18.2 is the latest release

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Katello 5

• Status Updates
• 5.0.0 RC1 announcement is waiting for Release Notes to be published.

Katello 4.21

• Status Updates
• Katello 4.21.0 is released
• 4.21.1.1 was released last week
  • Katello 4.21.1.1 is now available

Katello 4.20

• Status Updates
  • 4.20.1 is out Katello 4.20.1 is now available

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Pulp Integration

• Current Status
• We’ll need to bump Pulp to 3.117 (or whatever is latest)
  • Next Pulp upgrade - Katello 5.1